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Oh, I have a habit of letting myself be lectured on the things I know best. I like to see if they are understood in the same way I understand for there are many ways of knowing the same thing
Alfred de Vigny
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Alfred de Vigny
Age: 66 †
Born: 1797
Born: March 27
Died: 1863
Died: September 17
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Alfred Victor de Vigny
Alfred Victor
comte de Vigny
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Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
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Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
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Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you.
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To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those coincidences to which even the greatest men confess they owe most of their fame
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The first among mankind will always be those who make something imperishable out of a sheet of paper, a canvas, a piece of marble, or a few sounds
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Doubt is the freedom of thought. Any claim to truth can be doubted.
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